Peterborough, UK - More than 2,400 litter louts have been fined on the spot for dropping rubbish in Peterborough as part of a zero-tolerance crackdown to keep the streets clean which has earned Peterborough City Council almost £80,000 this year.
Peterborough's eagle-eyed "green police" patrol the streets seven days a week, handing out on-the-spot £75 fines to anyone caught casually dropping sweet papers, fast food wrappers and even cigarette ends.
Figures obtained through a Freedom of Information request from Peterborough City Council reveal a staggering 2,439 fixed penalty notices were issued from April last year to 15 January , 2009 – and that number is expected to rise with the financial year not coming to an end until March 31.
Of those fines, 1,491 have already been paid – generating a whopping £79,055. This amounts to an almost 50 per cent rise from the 1,641 penalties issued in 2007/08, which earned the council £58,525.
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